Exploring Tosca
Join Chair of the Department of Performance Studies at Westminster Choir College Margaret Cusack and Tosca Stage Director Eve Summer for an in-depth look at the Princeton Festival's production. You will learn about the plot, what to watch and listen for onstage, and hear special commentary from the director. There will be a Q&A session immediately following the presentation.
This talk is presented as a Princeton Symphony Orchestra BRAVO! community enrichment program. For more information about PSO BRAVO!, visit: princetonsymphony.org/education
Performances of Tosca take place on the grounds of Morven Museum & Garden June 13, 15 and 17.
Photo: Caste Sant'Angelo, Rome, Italy by Giuseppe Milo, Creative Commons 2.0
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MARGARET CUSACK is a winner of the International American Music Competition at Carnegie Hall and made her New York recital debut at Weill Recital Hall of Carnegie Hall in 1987. She made her New York City Opera debut in 1985 as Micaela in Carmen and her Metropolitan Opera debut in Elektra in 1999 under the baton of James Levine. Ms. Cusack is currently professor of voice and holds the Elsie Hillman Endowed Chair of the Department of Performance Studies at Westminster Choir College of Rider University, where she also teaches Opera Literature. She earned a Bachelor of Music in voice performance and a Master of Music in teaching at the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music.
Hailed as a star of stage directing “whose approach to directing refreshes hope for the future of opera,” EVE SUMMER is a director, producer, and choreographer. She has been described as having “a gift for translating classic symbolism into familiar detail with just enough flippancy to bring out the fun of the opera without skewing the emotional equation." This season Eve returns to Opera Grand Rapids and debuts at Boston Baroque, Annapolis Opera, The Princeton Festival, and Amelia Island Opera with new productions of L’elisir d’amore, Ariodante, La traviata, Tosca, and Hansel and Gretel. This summer she joins the faculty of the Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival for their opera and musical theater intensive.
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